The 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Arts

Grand Prix:

Henri-Georges Adam

Prix d’Honneur:

Edith Behring, Jerome Kaplan, Albert Kinert, Adam Marczynski, Harold Town, Gen Yamaguchi

International Jury Prizes:

Zoran Mušič, Kiyoshi Saito, Jurgen von Konow, Giuseppe Santomaso, Riko Debenjak

18. 6.-15. 9. 1957

Number of artists in the main exhibition: 243

Main exhibition venues:

Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

In addition to sending out personal invitations to artists and official nominations, the Secretariat for the Preparation of Exhibitions of Graphic Arts also made it possible for artists to apply independently. Artists could take part in the Biennial with up to three artworks created over the recent two years. This became the rule, hence generating new print production and achievements in the graphic arts. The special group École de Paris also took part in the exhibition. The Biennial’s success was based on the democratic viewpoint of the organisers in presenting various stylistic concepts and the objectivity of the international jury, which chose the purity of printmaking as the basic criterion. The graphic map of the exhibiting countries extended to include South America, the Middle East and the Far East.

2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 1957, poster (author Zlatko Bourek).

Photo: Jaka Babnik. MGLC archive.

2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 1957, installation view at Moderna galerija.

Courtesy of Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.

Artists

Gustav Kurt Beck
Werner Berg
Oskar Matulla
Slavi Soucek
Rudolf Szyszkowitz
Chantal de Hemptinne
Joseph Hendrickx
Frans Masereel
Michel Olyff
Gustave Singier
Victor A. Stuyvaert
Jules Van Paemel
Edith Behring
João Luiz Chaves
Fayga Ostrower
Arthur Luiz Piza
Marko Béhar
Karl Jordanov
Nayden Petkov
Paul Beaulieu
Alistair Bell
Léon Bellefleur
Bruno Bobak
Albert Dumouchel
Roland Giguère
Rudolph Kovač
Harold Town
Shirley Wales
Enrique Zanartu
Jen Han
Li Hua
Gu Juanj
Huan Jun-ü
Li Kjün
Wou-ki Zao
Alessandro Obregon
Cyril Bouda
Václav Fiala
Jaroslav Novak
Asger Jorn
Mogens Zieler
Raymond Abner
Ina Colliander
Erkki Hervo
Toimi Kiviharju
Erkki Talari
Henri Georges Adam
Yves Alix
François Arnal
Jean Arp
Roger Bissière
Camille Bryen
Jean Carzou
Gisèle Celan-Lestrange
Roger Chastel
Jean Clerté
Brigitte Coudrain
Lucien Coutaud
Jean Jacques de Grave
Jean Deville
Jean Dubuffet
Maurice Estève
José Luis Galicia
Jeremy Gentilli
Pierre Guastalla
Charles Lapicque
Henri Laurens
Fernand Léger
Herbert Lespinasse
Jean Lurçat
Alfred Manessier
André Masson
Jean Messagier
Kaiko Moti
Pierre Soulages
Tilmans
Roger Vieillard
Jacques Villon
Herman Webster
Max Ernst
Hans Hartung
Ferdinand Springer
Krishna Reddy
Enrico Baj
Renato Birolli
Giovanni Brancaccio
Massimo Campigli
Enrico Castelli
Arnoldo Ciarrocchi
Antonio Corpora
Pericle Fazzini
Franco Gentilini
Gaetano Giangrandi
Gino Gregori
Renato Guttuso
Berto Lardera
Mino Maccari
Tranquillo Marangoni
Marino Marini
Marcello Mascherini
Ivan Mosca
Bruno Saetti
Pietro Sanchini
Giuseppe Santomaso
Toti Scialoja
Gino Severini
Lojze Spacal
Giuseppe Viviani
Chimei Hamada
Yozo Hamaguchi
Fumio Kitaoka
Keiko Minami
Kiyoshi Saito
Jun-ichiro Sekino
Gen Yamaguchi
Alberto Beltran
Angel Bracho
Celia Calderón
Elizabeth Catlett
Andrea Gomez
Elena Huerta
Xavier Iñiguez
Sarah Jimenez
Francisco Luna
Luisa Martin
Leopoldo Méndez
Adolfo Mexiac
Francisco Mora
Pablo O'Higgins
Adolfo Quinteros
Fanny Rabel
Rufino Tamayo
Mariana Yampolsky
Jenny Johanna Dalenoord
Maurice C. Escher
Waldemar Hansen Elenbaas
Marita Poest-Clement
Gust Romijn
Toon Wegner
Nikolai Astrup
Tadeusz Dominik
Johnny Friedlaender
Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann
Marian Malina
Adam Marczynski
Jerzy Panek
Andrzej Rudzinski
Stanisław Wójtowicz
Gheorghe Ivancenco
Gheorghe Naum
Jules Perahim
Eleanor Esmonde-White
Rupert Shephard
Antoni Clavé
Joan Miró
Pablo Picasso
Louis Bastin
Janne Dahle
Christian Due
Olle Hanspers
Bengt Lissegardh
Alf Olsson
Karin Persson
Ulf Trotzig
Jurgen von Konow
Serge Brignoni
Dadi
Hans Falk
Hans Fischer
Ernst Graf
Gottfried Honegger
Max Ernst Kohler
Aldo Patocchi
Gérard Schneider
Hans Studer
Marc Chagall
Serge Poliakoff
Kostia Terechkovitch
Ossip Zadkine
Mario Prassinos
Geoffrey Clarke
Merlyn Evans
Terry Frost
Anthony Gross
Stanley William Hayter
Gertrude Hermes
Ceri Richards
Michael Rothenstein
Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton
William Scott
Irving Amen
Leonard Baskin
Antonio Frasconi
Hans Jelinek
Jerome Kaplan
Misch Kohn
Armin Landeck
Mauricio Lasansky
Alan Lunak
Helen Phillips
Leona Pierce
Gail Singer
Magda Andrade
Walter Bergmann
Heinz Diekmann
Otto Dix
Hap Grieshaber
Carl Heinz Kliemann
Hermann Ober
Hans Orlowski
Otto Pankok
Bruno Skibbe
Dragutin-Gute Avramovski
Janez Bernik
Vesna Borčić
Stojan Ćelić
Riko Debenjak
Marijan Detoni
Željko Hegedušić
Božidar Jakac
Boško Karanović
Albert Kinert
Tone Kralj
Ferdinand Kulmer
Aleksandar Luković
Miha Maleš
France Mihelič
Zoran Mušič
Vladimir Pintarić
Marijan Pogačnik
Zlatko Prica
Angeli Kosta Radovani
Josip Restek
Vilko Selan-Gliha
Ivan Seljak-Čopič
Aleksander Šivert
Mladen Srbinović
Zora Staack
Vilim Svečnjak
Marijan Tršar
Marija Vogelnik
Lazar Vujaklija
Karel Zelenko

International Jury

Jean Bouret
Gustave von Groschwitz
Božidar Jakac
Emile Langui
Giuseppe Marchiori
Zdenka Munk
Mieczyslaw Porebski
Willem J. Sandberg

Publications

The 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Arts

Biennale Organisation

Organiser: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.
Director of Moderna galerija: Zoran Kržišnik.
Working committee: Josip Vidmar, Zoran Kržišnik, Izidor Cankar, Riko Debenjak, Marijan Defoni, Karel Dobida, Ivo Frol, Božidar Jakac, Miha Maleš, France Mihelič, Zvone Miklavčič, Zdenka Munk, France Stelè.
President of the committee: Josip Vidmar.
Secretary of the committee: Zoran Kržišnik.
Organising committee for the exhibition: Jean Leymarie, Emile Langui, Giuseppe Marchiori, Gustave von Groschwitz, W. J. Sandberg, Mieczyslaw Porebski.